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Message: [QUOTE="Doctor Hoop, post: 4963091, member: 6845"] Didn't attend UConn, but grew up in West Hartford (HS in the 70's). Played a lot of basketball growing up and in HS, and used to listen to UConn games on a transistor radio that I bought with money from a paper route :cool:. They were "pro basketball" for me in Connecticut. I remember the recruiting battles for Chuck Aleksinas, Corny Thompson, Mike McKay, Earl Kelley, Chris Smith. Been following them ever since. High point of the climb was when they hired Jim Calhoun from Northeastern, who was exactly the guy I hoped they'd get. Kind of knew they were on their way up when I saw how the defense became a major emphasis and when the recruiting turned national. We were off to the races. It was only a matter of time under Calhoun. [/QUOTE]